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• NRA promises to help prevent school shootings

  December 18, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — After four days of self-imposed silence on the shooting that killed 26 people inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation’s largest gun rights lobby emerged Tuesday …

• NRA goes silent after Connecticut school shooting

  December 18, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Where is the NRA? The nation’s largest gun-rights organization — typically outspoken about its positions even after shooting deaths — has gone all but silent since last …

• Mich. becomes right-to-work state despite protests

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In a dizzyingly short time span, Republicans have converted Michigan from a seemingly impregnable fortress of organized labor into a right-to-work state, leaving outgunned Democrats and … 2

• Michigan lawmakers approve right-to-work bills

  December 11, 2012 in Nation/World LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Over the chants of thousands of angry protesters, Republican lawmakers made Michigan a right-to-work state Tuesday, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized labor in …

• Right-to-work debate heats up ahead of Mich. vote

  December 11, 2012 in Nation/World LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Even with the outcome considered a foregone conclusion, the heated battle over right-to-work legislation in the traditional union bastion of Michigan showed no sign of cooling … 7

• Mich. legislators defy unions, OK right-to-work

  December 7, 2012 in Nation/World LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In an audacious flex of political muscle, Republicans in a single day reached the brink of a goal that for years has seemed an all-but-impossible dream: … 5

• Michigan GOP approves right to work amid protests

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republicans slammed right-to-work legislation through the Michigan House and Senate Thursday, drawing raucous protests from throngs of stunned union supporters, whose outnumbered Democratic allies were powerless … 4

• Michigan GOP pushes right to work amid protests

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republicans rushed right-to-work legislation through the Michigan Legislature Thursday, drawing raucous protests from hundreds of union supporters, some of whom were pepper-sprayed by police when they …

• Police spray pro-union protesters at Mich. Capitol

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Police used chemical spray Thursday to subdue protesters trying to rush the Michigan Senate chamber after Gov. Rick Snyder and other Republican leaders announced they would …

• Police arrest, spray protesters at Mich. Capitol

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State Police say they have used chemical spray on right-to-work protesters who to tried rush into the Senate chamber at the state Capitol, and minority …

• Guard says Manning protest annoyed brig staff

  December 1, 2012 in Nation/World FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Some workers at a Marine Corps brig housing a soldier charged with sending U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks became annoyed at a demonstration on his behalf …

• Son’s woes weigh heavily on the Rev. Jesse Jackson

  November 30, 2012 in Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — In the cluttered office where he’s met with some of the nation’s top politicians and preachers, penned rousing speeches and planned civil rights marches, the Rev. Jesse …

• Singers continue long Wis. tradition of protest

  November 24, 2012 in Nation/World MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Every weekday as the clock strikes noon, dozens of demonstrators pass out songbooks inside the Wisconsin Capitol. Office workers who know what’s coming scramble to close … 3

• New Mexico coyote hunting contest sparks protests

  November 16, 2012 in Nation/World ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The terms of the competition are simple: Hunters in New Mexico have two days this weekend to shoot and kill as many coyotes as they can, … 2

• Court: Officers may have to pay fees in lawsuit

  November 5, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a South Carolina sheriff’s office can be held liable for attorneys’ fees for stopping abortion protesters in South Carolina who wanted to hold …

• Benghazi questions fuel fierce partisan debate

  November 2, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly military-style assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, has raised numerous foreign policy and national security questions and fueled a fierce, partisan election debate … 17

• Texas landowners take a rare stand against Big Oil

  October 17, 2012 in Nation/World SUMNER, Texas (AP) — Oil has long lived in harmony with farmland and cattle across the Texas landscape, a symbiosis nurtured by generations and built on an unspoken honor code …

• World Food Prize activities attract Occupy protest

  October 17, 2012 in Nation/World DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It’s difficult to argue with the goals of the World Food Prize Foundation — to recognize people who have helped improve the quality and availability …

• Appeals court: Town can restrict funeral protests

  October 16, 2012 in Nation/World ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis suburb can enforce a funeral protest ordinance aimed at preventing picketing by an anti-gay Kansas church, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The …

• Republicans hammer State witnesses on Libya attack

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Four weeks before the election, Republicans used a politically charged House hearing to confront State Department officials about security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya and assail … 3

• Ex-head of military team in Libya: security weak

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The former head of a 16-member U.S. military team in Libya said Wednesday the consulate in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, …

• State: never felt Libya attack due to film protest

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry, giving congressional … 5

• State Dept. description of attack in sync with GOP

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry, giving congressional …

• State Dept. description of attack in sync with GOP

  October 9, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it never concluded that an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya was simply a protest gone awry, a statement that places …

• Occupy members join police in bid to save Ga. home

  October 8, 2012 in Nation/World ATLANTA (AP) — Less than a year after Occupy Atlanta members clashed with police in riot gear in a downtown park, they’re now protesting alongside officers to help a retired … 3

• Campaign travel offers Obama view of tough economy

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Sometimes all President Barack Obama has to do is look out the window to get a firsthand look at the country’s economic woes. This week in … 1

• Rough economy in clear view for Obama on the road

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Sometimes all President Barack Obama has to do is look out the window to get a firsthand look at the country’s economic woes. This week in …

• US, Egypt seek better ties after embassy protests

  September 24, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — The United States and Egypt sought Monday to repair ties strained severely by a year-and-a-half of rapid change in the Middle East, culminating in the last …

• Clinton urges tolerance amid anti-US protests

  September 24, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed Monday to Muslims to show “dignity” and not resort to violence as they protest an anti-Islam film produced in …

• Gas drilling protests held in US, other countries

  September 22, 2012 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Demonstrators in the United States and other countries protested Saturday against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking that they say threatens public health and the …

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